Gotham

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gotham, from 176 m² to 811,332 m² (81.13 ha, 200.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gotham in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Gotham in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD039-013 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown as an oval enclosure (est. ext. diams. c. 60m N-S; c. 40m E-W) on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map and as a raised oval area on the latest ed. (1909) of the map. In 1972 no visible surface traces survived, apart from a slight rise in the field (SMR file). Visible as a cropmark on Dr. Gillian Barrett's aerial photographs (GB90.BU.03 (1990) and GB91.DW.26 (1991)) which show the monument located in the SE quadrant of a second, much larger enclosure (KD039-013001-). (Barrett 2000, 87-106, Fig.12.; ibid 2002, 1-30, Plate 11; ibid 2006, 69-95, Fig.3.3.) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD039-013001 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990 and 15 July 1991. Aerial photographs (GB90.BU.03) and (GB91.DW.26) show the cropmark of a large curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. The cropmark of a second, smaller enclosure (KD039-013---- ) is also visible, in the SE quadrant of the large enclosure. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD039-048 Moated site
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 15 July 1991. Aerial photographs (GB91.DW.21 and 22) show the cropmark of a rectangular enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing SW, possibly a moated site. Also visible in a 1995 aerial photo (GB95.FS.26) (Barrett 2002, 1-30; ibib 2006, 69-95) Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Gotham Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch rubble granite road bridge over river, c.1860, with triangular cut-waters, dressed stone voussoirs and rubble stone parapet walls. Rubble granite walls to abutments. Rubble stone parapet walls. Three segmental arches on dressed stone piers. Dressed stone triangular cut-waters to south. Dressed stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Lerr River with grass banks to river.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Gotham, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2509 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Gotham with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Gotham

Area

864,706 m² (86.47 ha, 213.67 acres)

Civil parish

Ballaghmoon, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Ballaghmoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

223 people lived in 80 households in the Ballaghmoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanure (Co. Carlow), Dunmanoge, Lisbush, Monaclaudy, Newtownallen, Oakpark or Painestown (Co. Carlow)

Placenames

Gotham on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.